linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: clean up some sparse endianness warnings in ipv6.h

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Message-Id: <20140715.160555.407533257702039786.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 15 Jul 2014 16:05:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jlayton@...marydata.com
Cc:	kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
	kaber@...sh.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: clean up some sparse endianness warnings in ipv6.h

From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...marydata.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 08:25:46 -0400

>  #endif
> -		(a->s6_addr32[2] ^ htonl(0x0000ffff))) == 0UL;
> +		((a->s6_addr32[2] ^ htonl(0x0000ffff)) == cpu_to_be32(0)));

While you are spinning a new version, change this htonl() to be
cpu_to_be32().  All the rest of this entire expression uses the
cpu_to_*() interfaces, so for consistency this should too.

Thanks.
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